Hiring by Small Firms
Helps Cut Welfare Rolls

The current drive to move people from welfare to work is getting a big boost from fast-growing small companies, a survey showed.

But much of the hiring found by the Coopers & Lybrand survey appears to result more from labor shortages than from any company goals to hire welfare recipients, interviews with some of the employers involved indicated. For these companies, at least, the most effective advocate of welfare-to-work is...